John P. Cull
Arizona GENWEB Archives
Arizona, the Youngest State, page 15
John P. Cull is one of the prosperous representatives of
commercial interests in Douglas and Courtland where for eight
years he has owned and operated general mercantile stores.
He was born in California in 1873, the son of S.T.and Minerva
Cull, to whom there wereborn eleven children, eight still
living, our subject being the sixth in the order of birth.
The early years of John P. Cull were passed in his native
state, where he acquired a common school education and
subsequently devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits.
In 1897 he came to Arizona, first locating in Wilcox, whence he
later removed to Bisbee and there
he engaged in general merchandising with a Mr. Anderson,
under the firm name of Anderson & Cull. For six years
he gave his undivided attention to the development of
the business in which he met with a good measure of success.
In January 1908, he disposed of his interest in the
establishment and removed to Courtland, where he purchased a
half block of land in the business district and erected
thereon five store rooms and a hotel and similar concerns
in the town, but as he carries a large and well assorted
stock, is reasonable in his prices and is most considerate
of his customers, he enjoys a large patronage, his being one
of the thriving commercial enterprises of that vicinity.
He is a stockholder in the Miners and
Merchants Bank of Bisbee and has other financial interests
in that city. In 1914 Mr. Cull established his present
grocery store in Douglas, which is one of the leading
establishments of its kind there and he carries a full and
select line of groceries. He now makes his home in Douglas.
In 1904 Mr. Cull was married to Miss Minnie Henninger, a
native of Kansas, who was reared in California, where she
removed with her parents in early childhood. The family
later settled in Bisbee in which city her parents still
reside, the father owning and operating a cigar factory there.